In May, OpenAI abandoned its plan to fully convert to a for-profit company after pressure from regulators and critics. The company instead shifted to a modified approach where the nonprofit board would retain control while converting its for-profit subsidiary into a public benefit corporation (PBC). What changed in the agreement The revised deal extends Microsoft’s ..
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In turn, the delay in network state propagations spilled over to a network load balancer that AWS services rely on for stability. As a result, AWS customers experienced connection errors from the US-East-1 region. AWS network functions affected included the creating and modifying Redshift clusters, Lambda invocations, and Fargate task launches such as Managed Workflows ..
Fine-tuning experiments with 100,000 clean samples versus 1,000 clean samples showed similar attack success rates when the number of malicious examples stayed constant. For GPT-3.5-turbo, between 50 and 90 malicious samples achieved over 80 percent attack success across dataset sizes spanning two orders of magnitude. Limitations While it may seem alarming at first that LLMs ..
Discord says that hackers made off with images of 70,000 users’ government IDs that they were required to provide in order to use the site. Like an increasing number of sites, Discord requires certain users to provide a photo or scan of their driver’s license or other government ID that shows they meet the minimum ..
The researchers added: “This campaign is notable in that it demonstrates how impactful smishing operations can be executed using simple, accessible infrastructure. Given the strategic utility of such equipment, it is highly likely that similar devices are already being exploited in ongoing or future smishing campaigns.” Sekoia said it’s unclear how the devices are being ..
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced Sora 2, its second-generation video-synthesis AI model that can now generate videos in various styles with synchronized dialogue and sound effects, which is a first for the company. OpenAI also launched a new iOS social app that allows users to insert themselves into AI-generated videos through what OpenAI calls “cameos.” OpenAI ..
The key benefit of Battering RAM is that it requires equipment that costs less than $50 to pull off. It also allows active decryption, meaning encrypted data can be both read and tampered with. In addition, it works against both SGX and SEV-SNP, as long as they work with DDR4 memory modules. Wiretap Wiretap, meanwhile, ..
The attention bottleneck In AI, “attention” is a term for a software technique that determines which words in a text are most relevant to understanding each other. Those relationships map out context, and context builds meaning in language. For example, in the sentence “The bank raised interest rates,” attention helps the model establish that “bank” ..
On Thursday, OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can now branch conversations into multiple parallel threads, serving as a useful reminder that AI chatbots aren’t people with fixed viewpoints but rather malleable tools you can rewind and redirect. The company released the feature for all logged-in web users following years of user requests for the capability. ..
Cloudflare on Thursday acknowledged this failure, writing: We failed three times. The first time because 1.1.1.1 is an IP certificate and our system failed to alert on these. The second time because even if we were to receive certificate issuance alerts, as any of our customers can, we did not implement sufficient filtering. With the ..

